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. >> what i've tried to emphasize is we have a unique opportunity to do something big. >> suarez: but after five straight days of talks with congressional leaders, president obama conceded today something big remains elusive. >> we are obviously running out of time. and so what i've said to the members of congress is that you need, over the next 24 to 36 hours, to give me some sense of what your plan is to get the debt ceiling raised through if they show me a serious plan, i'm ready to move, even if it requires some tough decisions on my part. >> suarez: the president had previously insisted on extending the debt ceiling through 2012 past next year's election. but after thursday's talks, he settled for asking congressional leaders to review three options with their members. the first-- the so-called "grand bargain" that mr. obama favors-- would cut deficits by about $4 trillion dollars, including spending cuts and new tax revenues. a medium-range plan would aim to reduce the deficit by about half that amount. the smallest option would cut betwn $1 trillion and $1.5 trillion dollars wi
. >> what i've tried to emphasize is we have a unique opportunity to do something big. >> suarez: but after five straight days of talks with congressional leaders, president obama conceded today something big remains elusive. >> we are obviously running out of time. and so what i've said to the members of congress is that you need, over the next 24 to 36 hours, to give me some sense of what your plan is to get the debt ceiling raised through if they show me a serious plan, i'm...
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>> well, you know, this is a big advocate for the victim. and a lot of victims don't have such an advocate. but frankly for the prosecutor, he's in a tough place. because even if he personally believes his victim, he has to keep in mind, can i prove it beyond a reasonable doubt to the jury given who this defendant is. and so what the victim's lawyer is saying, you know what, don't be a cow ard about this. maybe she lied, but we think the jury will still believe her. and i think the prosecutor is saying if she lied under oath to a grand jury, given the quality of the defense lawyer he has, i don't want to see what's going to happen during this trial. >> brown: so laurie levenson, what happens over the next month or so in the prosecutor's office, what are you -- from your experience, what do you think they're doing now? >> well, after they got over the initial panic i think what they are doing is tracking down every statement she made, seeing if they can corroborate her story as much as possible, seeing under what conditions she might have mad
>> well, you know, this is a big advocate for the victim. and a lot of victims don't have such an advocate. but frankly for the prosecutor, he's in a tough place. because even if he personally believes his victim, he has to keep in mind, can i prove it beyond a reasonable doubt to the jury given who this defendant is. and so what the victim's lawyer is saying, you know what, don't be a cow ard about this. maybe she lied, but we think the jury will still believe her. and i think the...
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and this going on in washington is a big part of the reason why. before i served in congress i ran a small business in ohio. i was amazed at how different washington d.c. operated than every other business in america. where most american businesses make the hard choices to pay their bills, live within their means. in washington, more spending and more debt is business as usual. well, i've got news for washington, those days are over. president obama came to congress in january and requested businesses as usual. he had ner routine increase in the national debt, but we in the house said not so fast. here was a president asking for the largest debt increase in american history on the heels of the largest spending binge in american history. and here's what we got for that massive spending binge. a new health-care bill that most americans never asked for. a stimulus bill that's more effective in producing material for late night comedians than it was in producing jobs. and a national debt that has gotten so out of hand it sparked a crisis without preced
and this going on in washington is a big part of the reason why. before i served in congress i ran a small business in ohio. i was amazed at how different washington d.c. operated than every other business in america. where most american businesses make the hard choices to pay their bills, live within their means. in washington, more spending and more debt is business as usual. well, i've got news for washington, those days are over. president obama came to congress in january and requested...
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there are big issues here. defense spending issues going to be very large, i think, for mcconnell because the reid approach had some serious cuts in defense spending. and then, you know,-- but mcconnell's already proposed some ideas that are likely to be incorporated in the reid-- in the reid bill that will allow the president to do a kind of second charge of increases in the debt limit without congress having much of an influence over it. congress would have to vote against it. so i think that the elements of a beale are here. you know, the problem from my perspective is, this is the easy stuff because it doesn't deal with tax,because it doesn't deal with entitlement. the question is, it doesn't even solve the deficit problem but it's been such a problem just to get the easy-- the question is that the rating agencies, the credit rating agencies and others, can can can they do the harder stuff right down the road? that, i think, is the real difficulty. >> one thing that hasn't been addressed, jim, and republica
there are big issues here. defense spending issues going to be very large, i think, for mcconnell because the reid approach had some serious cuts in defense spending. and then, you know,-- but mcconnell's already proposed some ideas that are likely to be incorporated in the reid-- in the reid bill that will allow the president to do a kind of second charge of increases in the debt limit without congress having much of an influence over it. congress would have to vote against it. so i think that...
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that's the big difference between the nba and the nfl. the nba owners and management are actually asking concessions from their players. >> howard beck, what would you add to that? help us understand the divide between the owners and the players in basketball. >> well, it basically breaks down along two lines for the nba. there's the philosophical or the stuck toural side of thisçç which is that they want to impose this hard salary cap instead of the soft cap which has all kinds of exceptions that allow teams to go past the cap limit on payrolls and a hard cap which would be an all-time first for the nba, something that players have been fighting against for decades really, ever since the sort cap system went into place. there's the structural. the other side is just the straight financial division of the revenues which are near $4 billion. currently the players make about 57%. the owners are saying they want to ratchet it down to more of a 50-50 split. even within that it's a redefined revenueç kol that they want to split 50-50. wha
that's the big difference between the nba and the nfl. the nba owners and management are actually asking concessions from their players. >> howard beck, what would you add to that? help us understand the divide between the owners and the players in basketball. >> well, it basically breaks down along two lines for the nba. there's the philosophical or the stuck toural side of thisçç which is that they want to impose this hard salary cap instead of the soft cap which has all kinds...
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workers, 600,000 of the big three. in 2004 it was 230,000, to today it's 111,00. they've suffered enormous reductions and hundreds of thousands of workers have taken buyouts in the last few years. so the companies are bringing more cars online. they can use... they can dangle more jobs and more products and more employment to the u.a.w. as a concession because they don't want to increase their hourly wage rate because they're still paying more on average than their foreign competitors. >> brown: but for the union it's in a sense fighting for some relevancy here, i guess, right? >> well, survival basically. there's two things the union needs to do. they need to get a contract that their members will accept. they also have to send a message to the foreign companies. they have been trying desperately to organize the transplants. toyota, honda, nissan, and, frankly, they've had no success. and they've tried this for decades and the new waub president bob king has made this a goal. if they don't organize the transplants they are forever going to be sort of sliding down
workers, 600,000 of the big three. in 2004 it was 230,000, to today it's 111,00. they've suffered enormous reductions and hundreds of thousands of workers have taken buyouts in the last few years. so the companies are bringing more cars online. they can use... they can dangle more jobs and more products and more employment to the u.a.w. as a concession because they don't want to increase their hourly wage rate because they're still paying more on average than their foreign competitors. >>...
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is italy too big to fail? >> well, certainly it is. i mean, if you have to think about a rescue package for italy no one today has the money to put it up. i mean, let's face it, as you said before, italy is six times the size of greece. so i think that everybody should be quite calm. today the markets were doing much better. it's true, as ken was saying before, part of the confusion arose because of a fight over an internal political fight between berlusconi and finance minister tremonte. but the decree for a large austerity plan was already passed. and it was because of this fight that the markets feared that maybe this decree was not going to be approved by parliament. today the situation has been clarified. by friday this package will be passed and, you know, italy is going to go on by adopting this plan and by 2014 it will have a balanced budget which is going to be quite an enviable situation if all of this will go according to plan. >> suarez: professor rogoff, the news of the austerity plan seemed to have calmed really jittery m
is italy too big to fail? >> well, certainly it is. i mean, if you have to think about a rescue package for italy no one today has the money to put it up. i mean, let's face it, as you said before, italy is six times the size of greece. so i think that everybody should be quite calm. today the markets were doing much better. it's true, as ken was saying before, part of the confusion arose because of a fight over an internal political fight between berlusconi and finance minister tremonte....
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. >> i think it's got to work on a big scale. and i think it's got to be affordable. >> so, where are they? >> it has to work in the real world. at chevron, we're investing millions in solar and biofuel technology to make it work. >> we've got to get on this now. >> right now. and the william and flora hewlett foundation, working to solve social and environmental problems at home and around the world. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> brown: the firestorm over phone hacking in britain put media magnate rupert murdoch on the hot seat today before a committee of parliament. along with his son and a former top executive, murdoch faced close questioning, and a closer encounter with a pie plate. outside, the sidewalks were crowded with protesters against the murdochs and their newspapers, and british prime minister david cameron. inside, rupert
. >> i think it's got to work on a big scale. and i think it's got to be affordable. >> so, where are they? >> it has to work in the real world. at chevron, we're investing millions in solar and biofuel technology to make it work. >> we've got to get on this now. >> right now. and the william and flora hewlett foundation, working to solve social and environmental problems at home and around the world. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and...
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there's a big gap between leaders and voters. so the long-term potential of social media is to bridge that gap, to draw leaders so they can listen to people and give ordinary people a chance to engage people and explain. >> brown: limitations and all that you talked about. >> absolutely. >> brown: darrell west, andrew rasiej, cecilia kang, thank you very much. >> ifill: still to come on the "newshour": high stakes deficit negotiations; budget woes in minnesota; the massive cheating scandal in atlanta's schools; southern sudan prepares for independence and the roger clemens perjury trial. but first, with the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: president obama announced today he'll begin sending condence letters to families of soldiers who commit suicide in combat zones. the decision reversed a policy that been in place for years. military suicides have risen during the long-running wars in iraq and afghanistan. in his statement today, the president said, "these americans served our nation bravely. they
there's a big gap between leaders and voters. so the long-term potential of social media is to bridge that gap, to draw leaders so they can listen to people and give ordinary people a chance to engage people and explain. >> brown: limitations and all that you talked about. >> absolutely. >> brown: darrell west, andrew rasiej, cecilia kang, thank you very much. >> ifill: still to come on the "newshour": high stakes deficit negotiations; budget woes in minnesota;...
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province along with another guy who was also close to the president, this is cumulatively speaking, it's a big blow for the karzai administration. you know, it'sçç confidant, relatives, high-level aides going back into april some of them are being killed. but more than who is doing it or who it's happening to, i would put it altogether by saying it's a real danger for the stability of the government and it makes it seem as if as the americans and nato begin to pull out, it's really not clear who is in control. it's really not clear where these chips are going to fall. >> you wrote aboutç that ioç oe of the recent pieces for the post that the tenor of kabul is changing. people seem to be preparing for that day when the last u.s. troops are out of there and trying to figure out where the power is going to be. >> exactly. people are very nervous and scared. the last time a super power was involved in afghanistan and suddenly left, which was of course the soviet union in 1989, it wasn't long after that that civil wary rupted which was incredibly vicious and destructive and destroyed much of
province along with another guy who was also close to the president, this is cumulatively speaking, it's a big blow for the karzai administration. you know, it'sçç confidant, relatives, high-level aides going back into april some of them are being killed. but more than who is doing it or who it's happening to, i would put it altogether by saying it's a real danger for the stability of the government and it makes it seem as if as the americans and nato begin to pull out, it's really not...